Post by: Xbox-Scene on January 29, 2007, 10:31:00 PM
XNA SharpNES 2nd Release - Full Speed, Save Games and Rom Navigation Posted by XanTium | January 30 00:31 EST |
| 'Lone Coder' released a new version of XNA SharpNES - a indie NES emulator for Xbox 360 made with Microsoft's 'XNA Game Studio Express'. What's new/fixed: * Second controller fixed (Yea for Luigi fans!) * Made thumbstick work as an alternate control * Battery saves are stored to disk (Be sure to exit the emu or it won't save) * Crude rom navigation * Emu remembers which rom was last loaded and will load it up * Minor performance improvements * Emu runs at full speed when not being debugged What's Still Missing: * Real Rom Loading Menu * Sound (Might I suggest humming along or retro game music from the 360) * Full Mapper Support Official Site: http://code.google.com/p/xnasharpnes/ Download: here (latest release) | subversion rep. (latest code) (requires Microsoft's 'Creators Club' account ($99/12m or $49/4m) to run on Xbox360) |
Post by: stevenalvarado on January 29, 2007, 10:15:00 PM
nes emus on xbox are free.
Could Nes emulation be harder than N64 emulation?
i guess both of them!
Post by: BurnerAzR on January 29, 2007, 10:18:00 PM
Too bad about the audio though... not much you can do with that.
This post has been edited by BurnerAzR: Jan 30 2007, 06:18 AM
Post by: pash on January 29, 2007, 10:18:00 PM
Post by: HoRnEyDvL on January 29, 2007, 10:28:00 PM
Post by: jacksprat1990 on January 30, 2007, 02:07:00 AM
Post by: MattyT on January 30, 2007, 02:53:00 AM
Nice job LC! 
Post by: d4nk on January 30, 2007, 06:21:00 AM
Post by: d-range on January 30, 2007, 06:50:00 AM
QUOTE(MattyT @ Jan 30 2007, 11:00 AM) 
I hope this shuts up all the people winging about XNA not being powerful (when 'Lone Coder' only had the NES emulator working at 70% speed).
It doesn't. Get back to me when a full-speed SNES emulator with sound is out. If that works, THEN I'll be impressed (but not that much). If someone can write an N64 or PSX emu, I'll eat my shoes, send fanmail to Microsoft and get an XNA subscription.
Still nice work, congratulations with this release. Let's see if sound is possibl e as well.
Post by: Kundahli on January 30, 2007, 08:19:00 AM
Post by: frieko on January 30, 2007, 09:21:00 AM
QUOTE(MattyT @ Jan 30 2007, 11:00 AM) 
I hope this shuts up all the people winging about XNA not being powerful
Uh, no, our point was that a 4 year old or trained monkey can make NES emulator run at full speed on a 486, the fact that lonecoder had any issues at all is troubling to say the least.
We all appreciate Lone Coder's efforts. Just sayin might not wanna hold your breath for XNA to solve all our problems. (Port over N64 or XBMC and prove us wrong!)
Post by: julio9 on January 30, 2007, 09:28:00 AM
Post by: Peter Gibbons on January 30, 2007, 11:55:00 AM
Post by: Chan163 on January 30, 2007, 01:50:00 PM
The only reason to say XNA is great or even only good would be owning M$ shares.
Post by: dmitri on January 30, 2007, 02:51:00 PM
QUOTE(Kundahli @ Jan 30 2007, 03:26 PM)
Is XNA in general free? I know for this BS you need to pay 99 a year, but what about the play other homebrew? If not I am growing tired of M$'s nonsense,
It's a sad world we live in when people think they DESERVE to play homebrew.
Why not put away your pirated Mame dvds and buy a game and support the economy for once?
-dp
Post by: incognegro on January 30, 2007, 03:35:00 PM
Post by: luther349 on January 30, 2007, 08:38:00 PM
Post by: Mr Invader on January 30, 2007, 09:10:00 PM
QUOTE(pash @ Jan 29 2007, 11:25 PM)
Mmhh, what are they (MS) thinking?? That is to expensive!
QUOTE(Kundahli @ Jan 30 2007, 09:26 AM)
Is XNA in general free? I know for this BS you need to pay 99 a year, but what about the play other homebrew? If not I am growing tired of M$'s nonsense,
Wow, people wont complain about 50 dollars a year for a vast collection of games to play online, they won't complain about paying $15 A MONTH to play one single video game; but they will start bitching like Hillary Clinton when they here they have to pay $100 a year to make their own games...
Post by: luther349 on January 30, 2007, 10:41:00 PM
Post by: d-range on January 31, 2007, 01:24:00 AM
QUOTE(luther349 @ Jan 31 2007, 06:48 AM)
its not the cost that bothers me its the lack of stuff so far but im shure that will change if they manage to port xbmc well thats instant for me but thats gonna be a hard one.
Not to burst your bubble or something, but trust me: there will never be an XBMC for XNA. Even if it were feasible using XNA (which it isn't), it would never, ever be allowed by MS... They're in the Media Center market themselves as well, remember?
Post by: MattyT on January 31, 2007, 09:16:00 AM
QUOTE(d-range @ Jan 31 2007, 08:31 AM)
Not to burst your bubble or something, but trust me: there will never be an XBMC for XNA. Even if it were feasible using XNA (which it isn't), it would never, ever be allowed by MS... They're in the Media Center market themselves as well, remember?
It really isnt impossible d-range. But I wouldnt expect it for a long while
. I wouldn't be surprised if someone was able to put together a C# Xvid player and patch it into XNA.
Post by: Davek1013 on February 01, 2007, 03:05:00 PM
The problem i have is with their little "Creators club" Its probably great for the coders, but for any non-coders Basically what M$ is doing is charging for content they didnt create! That is practically Robbery. I realllllly hope this gets hacked. but that might not be likely..
If microsoft allowed access for a cheaper price for the non-devs.. itd be a little better but not free.. Im GUESSING either that will happen or an XNA section will appear in the live marketplace with only MS approved games, and Someones likely gonna have to pay a fee..
Post by: Methadon on February 07, 2007, 05:52:00 PM
QUOTE(dmitri @ Jan 30 2007, 10:58 PM)
It's a sad world we live in when people think they DESERVE to play homebrew.
Why not put away your pirated Mame dvds and buy a game and support the economy for once?
-dp
Yes, we deserve to play homebrew. We don't deserve to have all homebrew free, but we do deserve to be able to run content that someone developes. If the author wishes to charge for their work, that's perfectly fine. MS charging you to play someone else's work is rediculous. To make matters worse, it's a 'sub-homebrew' catagory with XNA. It limits what the developer has at their disposal concerning the 360 and it's hardware. As for "supporting the economy for once", perhaps you don't know that thousands of people have gotten jobs with software companies from showing their "homebrew" efforts (even from the old ROMhacking scene).
Saying we don't deserve to play homebrew is like saying MS should just always tell us what to do with their products, and we shouldn't ask questions.
PS: Many of us homebrew lovers do NOT have pirated MAME... since you so eloquently mentioned "pirated MAME" out of nowhere (NOBODY was talking about MAME), I would infer that YOU pirate MAME, mr. stone-thrower
Thank you for attempting to burst the homebrew bubble. Please come again